Your child may be a math whiz but if he or she does not possess adequate reading comprehension skills, chances are, he or she will struggle with primary school maths. Not even the most astute abacus and mental math skills can help if one does not comprehend the question being asked. In Singapore’s school curriculum,...
With strong and creative writing skills, your child will have an edge in every academic topic and beyond, starting with primary school. To bolster your child’s enjoyment in writing and to give him/her the ability to write captivating compositions, here are some creative writing topics for your primary 3 child to try at home. Creative...
Phonics class helps a child read better by sounding out letters and blending sounds to form words. As your Primary 1 child takes on the MOE curriculum, possessing strong ability in reading, comprehending and writing will enable him or her to score well in exams. Here are five surprising ways that a phonics class can...
Beyond sending your kid to the best phonics class in Singapore, there are many creative and unconventional ways to encourage your child to read. These days, smart phones and tablets provide a handy and portable means to educate your child on-the-go. Other than enhancing what your child has already learnt in his phonic class, fun...
Reading and writing are among the most important skills your child needs. Why? Because a strong literacy rate and reading comprehension skills can determine his or her overall academic success. Even for other academic subjects such as Mathematics and Science, your child needs to have strong reading comprehension to score well in exams. What is...
A child who is a confident and skilled reader has an edge in primary school and beyond in work and life. In Singapore, many parents look to reading programs for kids to prepare their children to take on the MOE curriculum. As parents, you can extend their learning process to the home as well, starting...
If your 5 year old cannot read, there is a myriad of factors to consider before enrolling him into a reading programme. Preschoolers usually start reading on their own around the ages of three and four. If your child exhibits some difficulty around this time, academic solutions are aplenty. However, the multitude of choices might...
In Singapore, pure phonics enrichment classes used to be the go-to solution of most parents for their preschoolers’ language-learning needs. However, students of these curricula eventually ran into unforeseen difficulties, which necessitated the development of more holistic reading programmes. Although Singapore still teeming with phonics classes, modern modes of teaching how to read make a...
Your preschooler might be young, but his or her time is already precious. At this juncture, your child is gradually trading in his or her play time for classroom lessons, which means that he or she is challenged with adapting to both an education system as well as to new foreign environments. However, enrichment classes...
Creative writing in Singapore is an elusive concept to parents who were not part of the relatively newer education system. As a result, anxious parents scurry to enrol their toddlers in enrichment classes to give their children a head start in their early education. With so many creative writing classes sprouting in Singapore, it is...
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